King Hill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1968. Cottage.

King Hill Cottages

WRENN ID
gentle-oriel-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochford
Constituency
Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1968
Type
Cottage
Address
King Hill Cottages, 1 and 2, East Street
OS grid reference
TQ 876 905
Coordinates
51.58221, 0.70749
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

King Hill Cottages is a pair of cottages located on East Street in Rochford. They feature 18th century elements, likely from an earlier period, with later alterations and additions. The cottages are timber framed, with painted brick on the ground floor and weatherboarding on the first floor, along with plastered returns. There is a plaster rose on the south return wall and a red plain tiled roof with a central red brick chimney stack. The buildings are two storeys high with attics, featuring two gabled dormers. The first floor has three 19th century style two-light casement windows with transoms, while the ground floor has two central windows with nine panes, each topped with pentice boards. The entrances on the right and left have board doors with small canopies supported by brackets. At the rear, there is a two-storey extension with a square plan, a pyramidal red tiled roof, a single modern window range, and a modern board door. The cottages were likely once part of the Kings Hill homestead.

Local climate

King Hill Cottages receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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